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. TANLIQUOR HEATER, &e.

No. 494,990. Patented Apr. 4, 1893.

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ROSS OWENS AND MYRON LElVELLYN, OF OLEAN, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO GEORGE E. RAMSEY, OF SAME PLACE.

TAN LIQUOR H EATER, Soc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,990, dated April 4, 1893. Application filed February 26, 1892. $erial No. 422,936. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: made in the end of the liquor pan 4, which Be it known that we, Ross OWENS and passage lain turn communicates withasteam MYRON LEWELLYN, residing at ()leau,in the port opening into the top heating pan 5. county of Cattaraugus, in the State of New A steam exhaust pipe 16 is arranged in the 5 York, have invented a new and useful Imopposite end of the pan 5. The liquor is inprovemeut in Tan-Liquor Heaters, &c., of troduced into the upper liquor pan 4, through which the following is a specification. the pipe 17, and in the end of said pan oppo- This invention relates to an improved tan site the inlet pipe is formed a liquor port 18 liquor heater, and the object of our invention which discharges into a liquor passage 19 proro is to provide an apparatus of this character duced in the end of the intermediate heating that shall be exceedingly cheap, and simple pan and this passage 19 communicates with in construction and eiiicient in operation; one a liquor port 20 which opens into the lower that can be readily set up and taken down; liquor pan 2, as clearly shown. A liquor disone that can be easily and thoroughly cleaned, charge pipe 21 is arranged in the side of the r 5 and one in which the liquor will be gradually pan 2 through which the heated liquor is. and properly heated by the passage of a curwithdrawn from the apparatus after being rent of steam or otherheatingmedinm through gradually and thoroughly heated by the pasthe apparatus. sage of the steam or other medium through the Our invention consists in certain details of apparatus in a direction opposite to the pas- 20 construction and combination of parts, all of sage of the liquor. From the above it willbe which are shown in the drawings, set forth in seen that the liquor is carried through the the description and pointed outin the claims. heater in a tortuous course, thereby allow- In the drawings forming part of this speciing it to remain within the same a suificient fication Figure 1 is a perspective view of our length of time, and it will also be noticed that z 5 improved heater. Fig. 2 is a sectional view the steam or other heating medium is also led 7 on the line 22 of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a secthrough the apparatus in a tortuous course, tional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2, and Fig. above, below, around and between the liquor 4 is a similar View on the line 44 of Fig. 2. pans, thus subjecting the liquor to a maxi- In carrying out our invention we employ a mum quantity of heat from a minimum sup- 30 bottom heating pan or receptacle 1, a lower ply. 3 liquor pan or receptacle 2, arranged upon the In operation the steam enters the bottom heating pan, an intermediate heating pan 3, pan and passes upward through the ports and resting upon the liquor pan 2, an upper liqpassages to the intermediate pan and thence our pan or receptacle 4 upon the heating pan through to the top pan. The liquor enters at 5 3, and a top heating pan or receptacle 5, the upper liquor-pan and spreadsout over the mounted upon the liquor pan, said top pan 5 bottom of the same in a thin sheet, and then having acover 6; all of which pans are formed passes down into the lower liquor pan, spreadof copper or brass and held tightly together ing upon its bottom in athin sheet also. The

by means of the tie bolts 7, and the upper and liquor pans being arranged alternately belower cross bars 8. A steam inlet pipe 9 is tween the heating pans, and the steam passing 0 inserted in one end of thebottom heating pan in the opposite direction to the liquor, ha's the or receptacle 1, and at the opposite end of effect of gradually and thoroughly heating the this pan is produced a steam port 10 which liquor because when it enters the apparatus communicates with asteam passage 11,formed it receives heat from the top and intermedi- 5 in the end of the pan 2, which passage 11 ate pans which are somewhat cooler than the leads to a steam port 12 produced in the end bottom pan, and by the time the liquor has of the heating pan 3 and opening into the reached the lower liquor pan it has become same. A steam port 13 is provided at the opwarmed and then by the action of the interposite end of the heating pan or receptacle 3, mediate and bottom heating pans it is heated 50 said port connecting with a steam passage 14 to the desired temperature. 109

Our apparatus consisting simply of a series of pans secured one upon the other can be quickly and easily set up and taken down, and should it become necessary can be thoroughly cleaned in a very short time.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

1. An improved tan liquor heater consisting of the upper, lower andintermediateheat-- in g pans, the liquor pans arranged alternately between the heating pans, the cover, eross bars and tie rods all of said pans having ports and passages in, their sides substantially as. shown and described.

2. In a tan liquor heater, the combination 

